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Brigham & Women’s Hospital To Pilot Race-Based Preferential Treatment Program

Brigham & Women’s Hospital To Pilot Race-Based Preferential Treatment Program

If you're white and you go to Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, you might not receive the same quality experience as a nonwhite patient. Guided by critical race theory, the hospital may no longer use color-blind policies to try to treat everyone equally. A Boston Review article titled  "An Antiracist Agenda for Medicine" lays out a pilot plan to "comprehensively confront structural racism" at the hospital. It is scheduled to begin late this spring.

If you're white and you go to Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, you might not receive the same quality experience as a nonwhite patient. Guided by critical race theory, the hospital may no longer use color-blind policies to try to treat everyone equally. A Boston Review article titled  "An Antiracist Agenda for Medicine" lays out a pilot plan to "comprehensively confront structural racism" at the hospital. It is scheduled to begin late this spring.…